Commander Kelly Charles Seals is the Section Chief and Program Chair for Electrical Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from which he graduated in 1998. He also received a Certificate in College Teaching from the Colleges of Worcester Consortium.

CDR Seals joined the faculty at USCGA in 2004 and was selected as a member of the Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff in 2009. His research focuses on the use of satellite navigation systems in challenging or deceptive radio frequency environments. While at the Academy, he has enjoyed sailing as a Deck Watch Officer aboard the Coast Guard tall ship Eagle and as a safety officer for both the offshore sailing team and the summer ocean racing program.

Prior to joining the Coast Guard Academy faculty, CDR Seals earned a Second Mate of Steam and Motor Any Gross Tons Upon Oceans merchant marine license after serving aboard two Coast Guard ships. He served as the Executive Officer of the patrol-boat Wrangell out of Portland, Maine. While stationed aboard the icebreaker Polar Star in Seattle, Washington, he was the Communications Officer and made two deployments to Antarctica and one to the Arctic.

K. C. Seals, W. R. Michalson, P. F. Swaszek, and R. J. Hartnett, “Analysis of Coherent Combining for GPS L1C Acquisition,” Proceedings of the 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, September 2012.

K. Seals, T. Moyer, and G. Johnson, “Engineering Tomorrow's Leaders: A New Summer Program to Increase Interest in Engineering,” National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology Journal. Volume 11, Number 2, May 2006.

K. Seals and J. Russell, “A New Program to Increase High School Students’ Interest in Engineering,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2005.